Yep it's quite true. If you are just going to host one or two things, you could get away with a Raspberry Pi, but I have about 40+ containers running, and I realise I'm on my 3rd or 4th iteration of hardware. I don't have anything fancy as my small form-factor server cannot even mount...
Self-hosting will not give your mouth sex appeal
Self-hosting will not get rid of the nubs
Self-hosting will not make you look five pounds thinner
That last one … Spend all your money on hardware and you won’t be able to afford food. You may lose weight…
Fair point. Especially at the current HW prices, you can starve pretty quickly.
Maybe I should have paraphrased “Whitey’s on the moon” instead. “Data centres on the moon”?